In a message dated 1/7/2005 5:14:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, RckyIizard@xxxxxxx writes: > Sorry, your "they look alike so they must have be closely related" and its > converse "they don't look alike so they can't be that closely related" is a > pure, simple mistaken conclusion. > > Liz in Utah > Let me see to get it down to one of my readers digest posts. Your saying that the phenotype does not mirror the genotype. then if there is a litter of 10 puppies and one is a GV.and one is a poor specimen it doesn't matter which one you breed to. There are people and there are pure bred dogs one got here by selective breeding the other by lust. Not the same. I'm with Tom. Fred ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2004. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================